Category Archives for lighting and the economy
Financial Year
Perth 15th June 2011 Financial years are funny things, but every professional company has somehow to deal with it. In Australia we are generally running from July to June, so this is the last month of the financial year. We … Continue reading
Solar bottle light
Singapore 10th June 2011 Sometimes people come up with simple yet “powerful” ideas. Recently I read that students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed a cheap and easily reproducible solar light bulb by using a simple bottle. The … Continue reading
India
Singapore 2nd June 2011 Now here is an interesting country…those who have travelled there probably know what I mean. After China, India is the biggest economic engine of this region, a country with more than a billion people. China and … Continue reading
Electricity
Singapore 1st June 2011 The stories about electricity scarcity keeps filling the news, specifically in high demand areas such as populated countries like China, India and Japan, I blogged about it not long ago. Today I read that China is … Continue reading
Networking
Singapore 31st May 2011 Today I spent the whole day at the HA+D (Hotel Architecture and Design) conference listening to interesting topics regarding the future of the hotel industry and networking with people I know, people I had not seen … Continue reading
Subjectivity and objectivity
Singapore 30th May 2011 It is that time of the month where I am writing my column for Lighting Today magazine again. I have been doing that for the past 8 years or so and always enjoy sitting down and … Continue reading
Link between fees and quality
Singapore 25th May 2011 The last few days I have been discussing our fees with client and operator for a project that is positioned at the high end of the scale, in other words a 6 (7?) star hospitality development. … Continue reading
Electricity woes
Shanghai 19th May 2011 Two of the biggest economies in the world, China and Japan, are both facing huge electricity woes, but each for totally different reasons. China is plagued by drought and as a result electricity supply, which for … Continue reading
Brand representation
Singapore 12th May 2011 Not all lighting suppliers take short cuts in case my blog yesterday was misunderstood! Let me elaborate a bit on lighting suppliers today. They are generally the local representative of the principal brand manufacturers. They have … Continue reading
Variations!
Singapore 9th May 2011 Variations seem to be a good theme to blog about today. Not only are we looking at some “variations” in the Singapore electoral landscape after the opposition won a remarkable (for Singapore standards!) 6 seats in … Continue reading
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